The Victorian Internet (Standage) A delicious fast history of the telegraph, which shows that much of the things we think are singular to the computer network were ubiquitous around 150 years ago, including “online” communities, and predictions that property would free information and bring about peace. noesis Children (Moravec) I supposition you’d reason this as an early occupation (late 80s) in the modern branch of knowledge movement. The book is somewhat some the fastidious idea of creating brag automaton descendent of humanity, but a more pat subhead would be something like “A brief yore of computer science up to 1988, followed by a assemblage of clobber Hans Moravec thinks about.” On the whole, it’s beautiful good! A lot of the speculations are obviously a bit out of date, and in some ways this is very interesting when we think approximately new futurologists.